Breeching.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BREECHING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed May 23, 1904. Serial 1:10. 209,253-

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. ACKEN- HAUSEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Leavenworth, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Breeching, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a leather breeching for harness which will more efiectively resist the destructive strains to which the breeching is necessarily subjected and which also will enable the breeching to be constructed more easily and cheaply than heretofore. I attain this end by forming the body and stays of the breeching of an integral section of leather, to which the holdback and hip straps are attached by rings or buckles, as may be desired.

The invention resides in certain novel features of construction, as fully set forth hereinafter and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, which represent an example of my invention, in which drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the breeching complete. Fig. 2 is a detail section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4: is a view of the pattern or blank from which the body and stays of the breeching are formed. The body aof the breeching is of the usual shape and has at each end stays composed of three sections Z2, 0, and d, these sections pass' ing from the body of the breeching at different points and running into each other or joined together at the point e. The hip-straps f are connected with the stays at said point e, and the holdback-straps g are connected with the ends of the breeching-body, as shown.

Preferably the hip-straps are connected by buckles h, joined to the part 6 by straps h, and the holdhack straps are connected by rings 2', fastened to the ends of the body a by extra layers of leather 2'. By means of this construction the pulling out, misshaping, and other dislocations of the stays are prevented, and a marked improvement is made over the usual construction, in which the stays are formed of separate straps connected by rings or buckles to the body of the breeching.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of my invention may be resorted to at will without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. HenceI consider myself entitled to all such variations as may lie within the terms of my claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A breeching comprising a body, stays at each end thereof, the stays being each composed of three sections passing from the body of the breeching at different points and running into each other at their upper ends, said breeching body and stays being formed of an integral piece of leather cut into the specified form, hip-straps, means for connecting the hip-straps with the stays, holdback-straps, and means for connecting the holdback-straps respectively to the ends of the breeching, said means for connecting the holdback straps comprising rings with which the straps are engaged, and layers of leather engaged with the rings and stitched to the breeching-body. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. ACKENHAUSEN. Witnesses:

OTTO H. WULFEKUHLER, ALBERT F. WULFEKUHLER. 

